Yes indeed, that's the guy! Son of Lord Provost Andrew Ramsay.

Maybe they dropped the "t" for Garcraig

And once I see -craig, I can't unsee it

Many thanks!

Possible, yes. It looks like "Guronvig" to me but that doesn seem to be a real place name.

Glendearg?

people from the steps of the Court-House in Alexandria in November 1789. I know who 26 of these individuals are and I'm trying to determine if any of them accompanied the Ramsays to Scotland in 1775.

For context, Patrick Ramsay was a Scottish merchant in Virginia who returned to Scotland ca. May 1775, then died in 1777. Virginia seized his property as "British-owned" but Patrick's widow, Elizabeth, won it back after the war. To settle the estate, Fairfax County sold "upwards of sixty" enslaved

What a treasure the diary must be! Working on Revolutionary Alexandria, I empathize with the struggle to find women's voices. Would be wonderful to read more on Catharine Simms Powell.

Karr, Ronald Dale. “Suburban Land Development in Antebellum Boston.” Journal of Urban History, vol. 41, no. 5, 2015, pp. 862–80, doi.org/10.1177/0096....

Nonstarter since everyone knows historians idolize objectivity and would never dare have opinions on political issues.

Here's to a smooth recovery!